What are the key moments in the genealogy of the Western image which might illuminate the present status of the image? And what exactly is the situation to which we have arrived as far as the image is concerned? These are the questions guiding the reflections in this book. The book examines images from the Greek to the Byzantine, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to Industrial Revolution. Part II 2 examines key aspects of the image today, such as the digital and the cinema image, as well as the work of philosophers of the image, including: Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Paul Sartre and Bernard Stiegler.…mehr
What are the key moments in the genealogy of the Western image which might illuminate the present status of the image? And what exactly is the situation to which we have arrived as far as the image is concerned? These are the questions guiding the reflections in this book. The book examines images from the Greek to the Byzantine, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to Industrial Revolution. Part II 2 examines key aspects of the image today, such as the digital and the cinema image, as well as the work of philosophers of the image, including: Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Paul Sartre and Bernard Stiegler.
John Lechte is professor in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, where he teaches and researches in social and European cultural theory. He has published widely on issues relating to the image and the arts and is well known for his books on Julia Kristeva and his widely acclaimed Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers.
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Introduction: 'Genealogy', 'Ontology', 'Western Image' and the 'Digital' Part 1:Genealogy and Ontology (Paradigms) 1. The Image in Plato and the Greek World 2. The Byzantine Image 3. The Renaissance Image 4. Transparency and Opacity: The Image in Rousseau, Diderot, Hume and Kant 5. The Industrial Image Part 2:The Image in Photography and Cinema and its Digital Future 6. Some Fallacies and Truths Concerning the Image in Old and New Media 7. Barthes and Benjamin on the Photographic Image and Time 8. The Image and Beauty in Relation to Visual Digital Art 9. The Time-Image
Introduction: 'Genealogy', 'Ontology', 'Western Image' and the 'Digital' Part 1:Genealogy and Ontology (Paradigms) 1. The Image in Plato and the Greek World 2. The Byzantine Image 3. The Renaissance Image 4. Transparency and Opacity: The Image in Rousseau, Diderot, Hume and Kant 5. The Industrial Image Part 2:The Image in Photography and Cinema and its Digital Future 6. Some Fallacies and Truths Concerning the Image in Old and New Media 7. Barthes and Benjamin on the Photographic Image and Time 8. The Image and Beauty in Relation to Visual Digital Art 9. The Time-Image
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